libmagic
Implementation of the file(1) command
Install it with Homebrew
brew install libmagic- Latest version
- 5.48
- Kind
- command-line tool
- Installs (last year)
- 59k
- Licence
- BSD-2-Clause-Darwin AND BSD-2-Clause AND LicenseRef-Homebrew-public-domain
- Homepage
- www.darwinsys.com/file
Rolling libmagic out to a company Mac fleet
On a managed fleet, installing a command-line tool is a decision rather than a command. EnterpriseBrew puts that decision in one place: who may install libmagic, which version they land on, and what is recorded when they do.
- • Approve it for everyone, for one team, or for one person — and let developers request it when it isn’t approved yet.
- • Hold the fleet on the version it has, so an upgrade lands when you decide rather than when upstream ships.
- • See it checked against the best available vulnerability data before it installs, not after the next scan.
- • Keep every install in an audit trail: who, which Mac, which version.